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Blogging special sports events and storiesThu, 27 Oct 2016 18:43:48 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4P. Diddy’s son earned these benjamins, and his critics’ arguments are emptyhttps://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/06/for-p-diddys-son-its-all-about-the-benjamins-and-thats-just-wrong/
https://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/06/for-p-diddys-son-its-all-about-the-benjamins-and-thats-just-wrong/#commentsFri, 01 Jun 2012 14:00:23 +0000http://blog.chron.com/jeromesolomon/?p=2810This is so ridiculously stupid, I can’t even believe I am taking a few minutes (wow, it took only four) to write three sentences about it, but with so many people discussing the matter, especially on Twitter, I felt a need to vent weigh in.

There are people out there who actually believe that Justin Combs should not accept a football scholarship to UCLA because his father, music mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs has enough money to pay for his schooling.

Are you one of them?

How did this become a “controversy?” Have they started giving iPads to residents at mental institutions?

People shouldn't cry foul over P.Diddy's son getting a football scholarship.

Look, Justin Combs earned the football scholarship with his hard work on the field and in the classroom. His father didn’t earn the scholarship. You might as well say rich kids shouldn’t take a salary when they start working because their families don’t need the money. Give me a break.

I won’t even bother to put together a list of wealthy parents who were overjoyed to see their children attend school on athletic (or academic) scholarships. If you need that to help convince you there is nothing wrong, you need more help than I can provide.

This is as weak an attack on an athlete from a wealthy background as those who got on Chris Simms because he showed up on the University of Texas campus in a limo. Hey, that’s what the hotel where he and his mother were staying shuttled guests around in. So he was supposed to throw money away to ride in a crusty cab because they weren’t staying at a Motel 6? Please.

Children of millionaires have as much right to athletic scholarships as anyone else. These scholarships are earned by performance, not given out due to need. These are jobs, people. Granted they are low paying jobs, but they are jobs nonetheless.

This has to be more about hip hop and Combs’ amazing ability to say a couple of less-than-mesmerizing words over music he sampled from actual musicians an become rich doing it, than it is about wealth, because I have never heard such a thing brought up before.

What’s next, the younger Combs shouldn’t travel on the team plane, because his father could afford to send him to away games via private jet? Or he shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the dorms because his dad could get him a nice condo near campus?

Please. Make. It. Stop.

]]>https://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/06/for-p-diddys-son-its-all-about-the-benjamins-and-thats-just-wrong/feed/114Umpires award scholarships to Houston-area baseball playershttps://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2011/06/umpires-award-local-baseball-players-with-scholarships/
https://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2011/06/umpires-award-local-baseball-players-with-scholarships/#respondFri, 17 Jun 2011 15:49:24 +0000http://blog.chron.com/prepsports/?p=3778With the baseball season officially over, the Houston Chapter of the Baseball Umpires awarded nearly $50,000 in scholarships from their Annual Baseball Umpires Scholarship Tournament to 18 local baseball players from 18 different schools last night. The ceremonial dinner took place at the Campbell Center.

Just last year, the umpire organization awarded $51,000 to 17 recipients from 17 different schools raised from the tournament funds.